New Delhi, Aug 4 - Veteran glass artist Hemi Bawa, who was honoured with a Padma Shri this year, is back with a new solo show 'Glass Dimension', which promises to be a visual feast of art in glass.

One of the few artists in the country who has been working with glass for the last two decades, Bawa's show opens at the Polka Art Gallery in the capital Aug 9.

'My medium is primarily glass though I combine it with metal, wood, pigments and cast iron. It's a wonderful medium, though tough to handle,' Bawa told IANS at a preview.

The 'Glass Dimension', which has a play of both artificial and natural light through transparent surfaces and complex textures of fired pigments, comments on social and natural realities.

'It is essentially my thought process and how I relate to the environment I live in,' said Bawa, who spent nearly three years putting the show together.

Most of the works are in series. A four-part bust profile of Indian soldiers made of fibre glass painted black stands out for the play of light on the glass surfaces and the expression of pride, patriotism, suffering and courage on the faces.

The set of four busts is priced at Rs.150,000.

Two more series -- 'In My Space' that is in two parts and 'Man in his Space', in three parts -- painted on copper bases fired with glass and pigments are vivid in their colour palette on the glass surface.